Greens launch their childcare package

The Greens have unveiled their childcare package which would provide all families with a minimum of 24 hours subsidised care each week.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young

The Greens have unveiled their childcare model, including 24 hours of subsidised care each week. (AAP)

The Greens have unveiled their childcare model, promising all families would be able to access a guaranteed minimum of 24 hours subsidised care each week.

There would be a single means-tested payment model, with families earning less than $65,000 a year having 85 per cent of the cost of care covered.

That would reduce for those better off, with families earning more than $340,000 a year having to pay 80 per cent of the cost.

Greens early childhood spokeswoman an Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said that would add $370 million a year to the cost of the government's proposed $3 billion childcare overhaul announced in the May budget.

"With 24 hours of subsidy being made available to all families, the Greens plan would give mums and dads access to 2-3 days of care a week while helping them to balance the household budget," she said in a statement.

The Greens would also establish a $200 million fund for centres in high need areas to improve their facilities.


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Published 8 June 2016 10:16pm
Updated 9 June 2016 6:33am
Source: AAP


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